Essay on: Which Came First?? Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg? A long unanswered question. It's really how you base your viewpoint on life, creation or evolution. In religion, God created the chicken and chicken beget egg, egg beget chicken, and so on.. However, through evolution the egg came first. You see, the chicken evolved from a lower species of bird-like creatures, and sense the egg is the first stage in one generation *, the second being adulthood (full-grown chicken), the egg was the first to carry the complete set of new DNA for the new species of chicken. *Each generation after has a chance for a small change in appearance and function. If any of these are more suited to the environment, then that would be the dominant gene in the new pool. Sparking a slight evolutionary step upward. Q.E.D.